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Enjoy Watching Youtube Videos about Agriculture

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I enjoy watching Youtube videos about agriculture and farming, because it’s interesting to see how the land and it’s management come together to produce the food we all eat and enjoy. It’s fun to learn about the technology, the techniques, and the people that make it happen. Many people aren’t aware how technologically advanced agriculture has become, or how much goes into protecting the soils and resources for generations to come.

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Changes in the shadows 🍂

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One of the things I notice about autumn evenings is how much the sun angle has changed. The sun is lower place throughout in the day but come evening they are most pronounced. It’s kind of a special time, one to embrace before darkness, at least in my mind.

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I was thinking it was almost a year since I was camping up at Canaan Heights in West Virginia. I remember the autumn feel down there in the evening both when doing evening rides on Forest Road 13 and that evening I watched the sun set from Canaan Valley WMA.

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Especially on very clear autumn evenings like tonight with deep blue skies offsetting the autumn colors of the trees. After a warm autumn day… Soon to be chilly autumn evening. How fast time comes and goes.

The colors of November are my favorite 🍁🦌🦃

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A lot of people think November is the gray and brown month. In many ways it is but also I find that color appeal to be quite beautiful. There is a richness to the color of late autumn before the snow, a natural color produced by the low angles of the sun and the chill of autumn breeze. The tangy smell of the manure on the fields below, dormant for a while but in six or seven months to be green once again.

Maybe this is the best weekend to get out for now 🌥️

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Looks like it will be a pretty good morning once the sun comes out, even if rain showers are expected Sunday and then cold, snow showers Monday into Tuesday. I am not going out to Madison County but I probably will do an overnight after riding and exploring today.

I figure get out and explore while I still have Big Red 🛻. If there isn’t a lot of snow come December I’ll probably do Madison County maybe after Christmas if Boxing Day becomes a state holiday, or potentially earlier in the month once rifle season is done. 🦌 Certainly the Horse Camp 🐴 is a good option even if there is a few inches of snow, but not so much that the road back there is impassable.

But today I’ll probably head out to Schoharie or maybe just Rensselearville State Forest depending on the time and weather. 🏕️ It would be nice to have a fire up in the woods. 🔥 Hang out, enjoy the long November nights when it’s not so cold out, though I plan to stop in Greenville on the way out for propane. It would be kind of fun to ride the Catskill Scenic Trail if not cloudy and crap weather all day with the wind whipping around. It’s certainly mild and they say we’ll have some sun. The alternative I’ve been considering is Bear Pen Mountain. That was fun when I did that like five years ago now.